Agree to the Debate Rules. What we have just learned about next Weeks President ial faceoff in philadelphia. Good morning. Great to have you with us. Ana cabrera. At a courthouse in washington, d. C. a critical hearing starting right now in Donald Trumps federal election interference case. The firsts in this case since the Supreme Court ruled that trump could claim some immunity and since prosecutors charged trump in a Superseding Indictment. Todays hearing will determine how and when this Case Moves forward. Lets bring in Justice And Intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian, former u. S. Attorney barbara mcquaid, and christy greenberg. So ken, Lay Out for us what we expect to happen today. Reporter good morning. This is a scheduling hearing. And the two sides are going to present their proposals for how to move forward in this case. To answer the question you raised in the opening, theres no chance this case can go to trial before the November Election because whatever the judge decide
We are grateful. Hi katie. Hi, thank you so much, and welcome to the beat. Tonight, there could be a delay in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial in new york. More on that in a moment but we start with breaking news. Judge cannon denying without prejudice trumps motion to dismiss counts one through 32 and is classified documents case. Her ruling coming in moments ago. She said trumps arguments are better suited to be argued later on in connection with other motions. In other words, she punted the decision. It comes after trump and jack smith faced off in a federal courtroom in florida today, trumps attorneys arguing to dismiss the entire superseding indictment against him, claiming the president ial records act gives them the authority to take and claim those classified documents as his own personal property. In the motion, trumps lawyers wrote, President Trump exercise virtually unreviewable authority to designate the records as personal. In court, trump lawyer todd blanche arguing, quote,
Thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this monday. We are grateful. The beat with katie phang and ari starts now. If i havent said it before, its really good to have you back. Thanks for being here. Thank you, my friend. Have a great show. Thanks. And to all of you welcome to the beat. Im katie phang in for ari melber. We begin with donald trump doing what he does best, trying to delay justice by claiming, wait for it, president ial immunity yet again. Today trumps legal team filing a motion to delay his new york criminal hush money trial, which is currently set to begin march 25th, just two weeks away. Trump argues the trial should wait for the United States Supreme Court to weigh in on his president ial immunity claim. Those arguments are scheduled for april 25th. Trumps legal team writing, the court must preclude the people from Offering Evidence at trial of President Trumps official acts as the commander in chief. Trump claiming that even though Stormy Daniels was pai
fatigue and morale issues, and in thele meantime republicans a playing politics. they are playing politicwise the vital resources ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. the democrats agreed to work with republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase border security measures in exchange for that aid. but then donald trump came out against the deal. he did not want to hand president biden a victory on trump s favorite campaign issue, which is drumming up fear about what s happening eaautothe bord. and so today republicans voted to kill their own bill in the senate. the finaln vote was 49-50 with all but four republicans voting against r it. after that stunning defeat democrat chuck schumer put a second bill on the floor. it strips out the border stuff and juste funds aid to israel d taiwan and ukraine, which is what the democrats wanted in the first place. 58 voted to advance that bill. that is just shy until the 60 they need for final passage. now the sen
ice beneath the waterline in terms of what this means for all the people that interact with it that you don t see, but this is happening to all versions of this. it s what it means to be sort of holding up democracy in this day and age. you be to be prepared for late night cellphone calls threatening your family. thank you, my friend. you bet. and thanksfr to you at home for joining us this hour. sous the matchup of the year is set, and it s a rematch of 2020. it s the same teams. it s the red team versus the other red team. that s right. kansas city chiefs are set to face-off yet again against the san francisco 49ers in super bowl lviii. okay, all right. if you thought that was a wind up toou the likely battle betwe president biden and donald trump in 2024, well, it is also that, too. and that is because bear with me here a segment of right-wing media is convinced that the kansas city chiefs qualifying for the super bowl this year is actually a vast left-wing consp